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CE family welcomes Mira
News Although devices using Microsoft's Mira technology are still a few months from hitting shelves, the software giant said on Wednesday that it has settled on its name for the software that will power the Web-surfing tablets.
[June 27, 2002, 10:03]
Mira device gains new supporters
News Unlike many other Web tablets, Mira actually doesn't function as an independent computer. Long term, Microsoft doesn't see Mira limited to tablets. Microsoft has added four consumer-electronics giants to the stable of companies committed to making...
[March 13, 2002, 8:52]
Webpad maker switches to Windows
News In Taiwan, Acer and AboCom are both developing Windows CE-based Web tablets, according to Microsoft. FIC currently makes one of the handful of Linux-based Web tablets on the market, the AquaPAD, which is currently also available running Windows.
[November 6, 2001, 16:32]
Thursday
Blog Tablets are everywhere, as Microsoft tries to tell us that what we need is a laptop with no keyboard. Personally, I find A4-sized tablets hard to swallow. It's true that they have some amazing handwriting recognition, and that the coming of the Web...
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
Mozilla moves ahead with mobile Firefox
News A: We have had two alpha releases on Nokia's Maemo tablets and will have a beta on that soon. The results of that work have been made available as an alpha release for Nokia's N800-series of tablets with Maemo mobile Linux.
[February 19, 2009, 14:51]
Tablet PC productivity tips review
Reviews Your team will be able to see your edits even if they aren't working on tablets -- as long as they have the free Windows Journal Viewer installed or you save the file as a Web page. Windows Journal, which is included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition...
[December 8, 2005, 12:00]
Intel delves deeper into consumer electronics
News Several companies, including National Semiconductor, have promoted and even tried to sell Web tablets in the past few years. A push into Web-surfing tablets presents a different quandary. While futuristic and interesting, Web tablets, which...
[January 3, 2001, 9:21]
Comdex: It's a wireless thing
News Unlike tablets, smart displays don't have a hard drive and don't access the Web independently, but the devices cost less and last longer on a battery charge. Also on display will be Microsoft's other tablet: the Windows powered Smart Displays...
[November 14, 2002, 12:23]
Lenovo plans convertable ThinkPad
News The new tablet PC is expected to compete with similar laptop convertible designs sold by Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and Tatung instead of the clipboard or slate-like tablets made by Motion Computing or Itronix.
[June 6, 2005, 9:35]
Toshiba JournE Touch
Blog Although most of the interest in non-Windows tablet devices like the JooJoo (nee Crunchpad), the rumoured Apple tablet and Toshiba's JournE Touch (the only device that's actually shipping) has been for consumers, could tablets gain a place in...
[December 18, 2009, 21:18]
Intel releases details of Web Tablet
News Market research company IDC predicts that Web tablets will account for only about 1 million of the 89 million Internet appliances expected to ship in 2004. Intel has unveiled the first details for its Web Tablet Internet access device, at its Intel...
[February 27, 2001, 7:02]
Intel getting inside consumer apps
News Intel doesn't just want to just be inside your computer -- the chip maker is now looking at creating a host of information appliances, ranging from smart Internet phones to Web tablets. That's really the model we have with these Web appliances.
[January 5, 2000, 8:14]
Sharp hones Linux PDA
News Embedded" devices include everything from Web tablets to PDAs to mobile phones -- any digital device that isn't a PC. The Zaurus SL-5000D developer unit will launch next month for developers who register on Sharp's Web site.
[October 19, 2001, 12:25]
Nokia unveils latest Linux tablet
News Nokia has released the latest in its line of touchscreen internet tablets, the N810 — the first device in the series to come with integrated GPS and a slide-out keyboard. The N810 will come with Skype and a Mozilla-based browser pre-installed and...
[October 18, 2007, 9:05]
National chief executive predicts date of tech upturn
News Cameras and fingerprint readers will also be embedded in cell phones, smart cards, portable Web tablets and other devices, Halla predicted. The company is working with Microsoft on the Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) project, Microsoft's...
[November 20, 2002, 7:41]
Six big trends of Comdex '01
News Consultant and Comdex advisor Tim Bajarin expects more Web tablets, similar to the prototype Bill Gates trotted out last year. Example: MobileAria, a California-based start-up, will display its voice activated computer-car phone combo, which allows...
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
Sun, MS duke it out over digital home
News Personal computers were gauche -- replaced by flat tablets or mini-workstations from which users could browse the Web and control home functions. Use a Web Pad to connect to the front door security camera and see who's there -- even unlock the door.
[January 10, 2000, 9:26]
Illustrator CS2 review
Reviews Artists will appreciate 'at last' additions, such as support for Wacom drawing tablets, improvements to type and colour handling, and the ability to export text and objects as Macromedia Flash files. Although these changes won't woo Web designers...
[April 26, 2005, 7:25]
Tech Up Your Sales Presentation With New Blood
Blog Hitachi StarBoard Software, for example, now offers a line of interactive whiteboards, panels and portable tablets that offers dynamic and engaging ways to grab and hold the attention of even the most technology-savvy meeting attendee.
[April 3, 2008, 12:03]
Microsoft Silverlight coming to Nokia mobiles
News The software, which will be available later this year, will also run on Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. The software giant is trying to lure web developers toward Silverlight, and away from Flash, to build rich internet applications...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
